Stand for tooth and nail brushes, tobacco-pipes, &amp;c.



PATENTED SEPT. 19, 1905.

w; ULLRIGH. STAND FOR TOOTH AND NAIL BRUSHES, TOBACCO PIPES, &o.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 11, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

WILHELM ULLRICH, OF OFFENBACH-ON-THE-MAIN, GERMANY.

STAND FOR TOOTH AND NAIL BRUSHES, TOBACCO-PIPES, &c.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1905.

Application filed August 11. 1903. Serial No. 169,128.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILHELM ULLRIoH, manufacturer, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Offenbach-on-the-Main, in the Empire of Germany, (whose post-office address is 5 Sprendlingerlandstrasse, Offenbach-on-the-Main aforesaid,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stands for Tooth and Nail Brushes, Tobacco- Pipes, and Similar Articles, (for which application has been made in Germany, dated March 24, 1903, and in Great Britain, dated June 10, 1903, under No. 12,971,) of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a device for holding small articles, such as tooth-brushes or tobacco-pipes, in such a manner that dust may not settle on the part to be inserted into the mouth of the user.

The use of the device is not limited; but for the sake of illustration it is shown applied to a tobacco-pipe.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a front elevation, of the device in use with the movable parts in the same phase.

There is a base-plate, whose rear surface is (0, adapted to be placed against a vertical wall and whose front surface is it. A staple j, with bearing-holes, projects from the upper end of the base-plate, and a bracket A, hollowed out at f, extends from the same side it of the base-plate directly below the bearing j. A ring cis fixed to an imperforate inverted cover cl and has an extending arm 9 projecting outward laterally and then downward vertically through the bearing j loosely.

To operate the device, the cover d, ring 0,-

and guide 9, being all fastened together, are lifted as one piece high. enough to permit the stem 0 to enter the cover (5 and the bowl of the pipe to enter and rest upon the hollowed portion f of the shelf A. The cover d is then lowered as far as it will go into the bearing The mouthpiece of the pipe is thereby in the upper portion of the cover (Z, whose open end isat the lower portion, and therefore, although drying and ventilating may take place slowly, dust, &c.,.which usually move downward, will not settle upon the mouthpiece.

I claim as my invention A stand for an article having a mouthpiece, consisting of the combination of a vertical base-plate, a bearing extending therefrom, a bracket extending from the plate below the bearing, a cover open at the lower end, a ring to which said cover is fixed, a guide extending outward from said ring and downward loosely through said bearing, the distance between the lower end of the cover and said bracket being less than the length of the article to be supported.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 13th day of July, 1903, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VVILHELM ULLRICH.

Witnesses:

J EAN GRUND, CARL GRUND. 

